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geometer

[ jee-om-i-ter ]

noun

    1. Also geometer moth. an adult geometrid moth.
    2. the larva of a geometrid moth; inchworm.


geometer

/ dʒɪˈɒmɪtə; dʒɪˌɒmɪˈtrɪʃən; ˌdʒiːəʊmɪ- /

noun

  1. a person who is practised in or who studies geometry
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of geometer1

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English gemeter, from Late Latin geōmeter, from Latin geōmetrēs, from Greek geōmétrēs; equivalent to geo- + -meter
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Example Sentences

Chief geometer Jean des Garets said the shrinking could have been caused by less rain this summer.

From BBC

Like the ancient geometer Euclid, the neural net had somehow intuitively discerned a mathematical truth, but the logical “why” of it was far from obvious.

“When you try to build a curved object out of flat material, there’s always a fundamental tension,” said Keenan Crane, a geometer and professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.

He used his stay in prison to reinvent the concept of a point at infinity, and combining it with Monge’s work, he became the first true projective geometer.

That feeling of mystical revelation — of a shimmering, underlying order that we can apprehend if we purify our perception — might explain the mutual affinity between poets and geometers.

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